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IN HB1136
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/6/2011
Primary Sponsor
Dan Stevenson
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AI Summary
- Creates criminal penalties for employers or their agents who violate occupational safety rules: Class A misdemeanor for recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally causing serious bodily injury to an employee; Class D felony for recklessly causing employee death; Class C felony for knowingly or intentionally causing employee death
- Establishes "corporate manslaughter" as a new criminal offense for employer violations that result in employee deaths
- Makes it a Class B misdemeanor for employers or agents to destroy or negligently allow destruction of documents concerning workplace hazards
- Creates a private right of action for employees harmed by an employer's failure to warn of workplace hazards as required under state occupational safety law
- Exempts the state and political subdivisions from the new felony criminal penalties
- Effective date: July 1, 2011
Legislative Description
Injuries to or death of an employee.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions
1/6/2011
Full Bill Text
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